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Originally posted by Spanky
We did have an argument about one thing. When Wilson was governor here he pushed really hard to reduce class sizes. I think he made the absolute limit of a class size in K-12 either 25 or 30 kids. When he did it it caused huge trauma in the school system (they had to go on a massive teaching hiring binge and it was also really expensive) Anyway, they were planning on pushing the limit up through Junior High and High School. But Davis (the next govenor) never followed through with that. Evers said they didn't follow through because there was no evidence that the smaller class size improved education and so resources were being put elsewhere.
I thought that was wrong. If the stats showed that reducing class size didn't improve things, then something was wrong with the stats. I just couldn't believe that the reduction in class size wouldn't help and thought they should continue the policy in Junior High and High School.
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Btw.. I almost forgot that I agree with you on this. While I have heard (but not checked myself) that smaller class sizes have a bigger effect on younger kids, I can't see how it would be bad for older kids.
That said, I have always preferred bigger classes myself. It comes from not actually wanting to talk to the professors. And the bad things that happen when I do. I think there is still a prof at my law school who resents my suggestion that charitable giving isn't necessarily selfless. And man, if you haven't thought of that one before, you have no place teaching a seminar on jurispurdence.
